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McDonald’s all-day breakfast? I’m savoring the news

Your Breakfast Club president here, rejoicing this morning with the news that McDonald’s will begin serving breakfast all day, every day, at its 14,300 U.S. locations, on Oct. 6.

There’s something curative about a McDonald’s breakfast, and the Golden Arches near my house in Athens, Ga., saved my Canadian bacon more times than I can count.

Surely I’m not the only person who, as a college student, found myself in dire need of coffee and a McMuffin after a night of keg stands studying and rolled over to my alarm clock only to find that McDonald’s breakfast cut-off (10:30 a.m.) would end before I could get my alcohol-soaked carcass to the drive-through.

And then there were my years at the University of Iowa, when I worked the breakfast shift at a rock ‘n’ roll McDonald’s one miserable summer.

Because it was 1990, MC Hammer’s “U Can’t Touch This” was dope on the dance floor (did I just write that?). Every time a crew member noticed the cradle of hash browns emptying, she’d say, “Stop, hash brown time!” and dance, Hammer-style, toward the deep fryer.

Trust me, at 5:30 a.m. in an Iowa City, Iowa, McDonald’s, you would’ve done the same thing.

The breakfast expansion will be McDonald’s biggest initiative in years and will require revamping menus and reconsidering how to cook pancakes alongside Big Macs.

But if anyone can do it, it’s Ronald.

Thanks, guy. I speak for college students everywhere. We appreciate it.